intro log

[ceoqueen]

who. everyone!
what. entering omega.
where. landing pads
when. today
warnings. none for now

You’re not sure how it happened.

A minute ago, you had somewhere to go, someplace to be. Maybe something important to do, or maybe you were just going out to buy groceries. Whatever it was, it doesn’t matter anymore.

You’re in some kind of transport -- a shuttle, given the turbulence and the sounds outside. You’re surrounded by strangers, some of whom might not even be the same species you are. There’s no point in asking. They don’t know how they got here either. The cockpit’s blocked off, like someone forgot to put in a door, and not even a glance at your omni-tool -- a holographic interface accessible by merely tapping the sensor on your left arm -- is any help.

You’ve only got a minute or so before the shuttle starts descending. There aren’t any windows -- this doesn’t look like a shuttle meant for long trips. When it finally touches down, the doors open automatically.

Before you are landing pads, abandoned equipment scattered about. There are other shuttles landing, and whether you like it or not, you’re going to have to get off before yours dumps you out the door. Turn around, and you’re met with a hazy skyline, only half the buildings seem to be coming from above.

Welcome to Omega.


ooc notes
You’re free to expand past the landing area, but please start all threads here. Please remember that your character will not have housing until Aria makes a post granting it; it’ll be on outsiders and linked here when it goes up.

Comments

[dowhatittakes]

I hope you're right, I mean, they're all very capable people but no ones immortal. Which is probably what worries me the most.

[tactile_telekinesis]

If I knew anything, I'd help you out in knowing at least something. Try not to worry too much, people say it gives you wrinkles.

[dowhatittakes]

[That will make Liara smile.]

Thankfully I won't really have to deal with that until I'm around 700 or so.

[tactile_telekinesis]

[Stunned, his eyes widen and he moves his head forward a fraction.]

700? Wow. Nice.

[dowhatittakes]

[Liara will blink, a little confused. She thought all humans knew how long asari lived.]

Well, yes, we can live to be about 1000 unless you get yourself killed before then.

[tactile_telekinesis]

[Have a guy from Earth where the year is 2011 and the space travel is saved for the heroes for the most part. He only knows about some of the aliens in all the different ring corps.]

Holy crap! Well I guess you got a while to go then. Unless you're nearly 700 in which case...probably better to start early on the whole wrinkle prevention?

[dowhatittakes]

[Well, at least he hasn't freaked out yet! Although Liara's terribly confused as to how he doesn't know about asari.]

Oh no, I'm only 109, I still have a long life ahead of me...I hope.

[tactile_telekinesis]

[He's seen a lot of things in his life. Strange things.]

So you're like a kid then? In comparison to the life expectancy I mean! Lookin' good for 109 then.

[dowhatittakes]

Not really a child, asari reach maturity around 40 or so, I'm young but it's not uncommon for asari as young as 35 to be on their own. It's not common but I've heard of it happening. But thank you, ah, it must seem silly to be calling my young when I'm already over a century old.

[tactile_telekinesis]

[Oooh that was the name of her race. It wasn't anything he had heard either.]

Hey, things are different for different species, races, whatever. That much I know. It's kinda weird to hear about someone reaching maturity at 40 though, but then I'm working on a human scale with years.

I've never met an asari before.

[dowhatittakes]

You've never met an asari?

[Well that's just bizarre, then again she'd never heard of Gotham so perhaps they were in the same boat there.]

I guess on a human scale 40 seems a bit late.

[tactile_telekinesis]

Nope. Until now any way. I want to say it's cause Earth doesn't really get a lot of visitors, but I'd be lying and even the other planets I visited never had asari.

[He smiles and leans forward resting his arms on his legs.]

Seems ages away for me, but I guess I'll be 40 when I finally decide to grow up completely. Well, mostly.

[dowhatittakes]

That's very strange, but I guess you can now say you've met one.

[She'll file that very interesting piece of information away for later, wondering just how different the place was he was from. As crazy as it sounded she was starting to believe in the alternate universe theory more and more. ]

I'm 109 and I'm still wondering if I will ever 'grow up' as you say. I think it all depends on mentality if my father is any example of that.

[tactile_telekinesis]

Cool.

[Conner hadn't thought about alternate universes because Gotham wasn't exactly known throughout the galaxy so it could just be someone not knowing about Earth things.]

Well if you aren't grown up then there's no hope for me, huh? [He smiles though.]

[dowhatittakes]

[She'll laugh at that, no, certainly no hope for anyone. Liara's had to grow up too fast in the past five years in her opinion but perhaps that's just life.]

Perhaps not, but it's not a bad thing to be young at heart.

[tactile_telekinesis]

Nah, I think things would be wasted is there was no one around like that.

[dowhatittakes]

That's true, we'd all be terribly old and disgruntled. No one wants that.

[tactile_telekinesis]

Ugh I don't even want to imagine it.

Hey, never asked what you were a doctor in. Only doctors I knew were the ones in CADMUS for health or science.

[dowhatittakes]

Well I'm not a medical doctor, I have a doctorate in ancient cultures and archaeology. You can get a doctorate in just about anything now, but medical school is a little different.

[tactile_telekinesis]

Oh wow, that sounds really cool! History isn't my thing but it must be cool to know a lot of stuff like that. So you look at what's left of a culture and can tell a lot about them based on what they left behind?

You can get a lot back on Earth, but...Well, I guess if we had a lot of connections in the galaxy then we'd have a lot more.

[dowhatittakes]

For the most part I can learn a great many things about a culture by looking at things they left. Of course, I've been studying a race called the Protheans and it's only recently that I've had to change much of what I originally wrote and thought about their culture.

[tactile_telekinesis]

Why was that? Something new come up?

[dowhatittakes]

You could say that, I met a Prothean and everything I had thought was true was changed really quickly. It's a long story really, but a bunch of things happened so now I deal mostly in information brokering.

[tactile_telekinesis]

You met one? Huh, that must have a pretty cool experience to actually meet one.

So you're the go to person for a lot of things then?

[dowhatittakes]

It wasn't as interesting as I thought it would be. We don't get along, whatsoever.

I guess you could say that, I'm fairly knowledgeable in a lot of things but I wouldn't say I know everything about Omega or anything like that. This station is huge after all.